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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 40

Regulations under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, governing the Removal of certain Plants and Bees from the Counties of Patea, Waitotara,¹ and Wanganui.—Notice No. Ag. 2504.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of May, 1925.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council made on the twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and gazetted on the thirtieth day of March then instant, making regulations governing the removal of certain plants and bees from portions of the Taranaki and Wellington Land Districts, and make the following regulations in lieu thereof, and doth declare that the said revocation and the regulations hereby made shall come into force on the date of publication of this Order in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations “prescribed area” means all that area comprising the Counties of Patea, Waitotara, and Wanganui.

2. No plant or portion of a plant of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or Crataegus shall be sent or brought from the prescribed area into any portion of New Zealand other than that area comprising the Auckland and North Auckland Land Districts :

Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to the sending by an officer of the Department of Agriculture, under proper safeguards, of plants or portions of plants of any of the above-mentioned kinds from the prescribed area for the purpose of the identification of the disease.

3. (1.) Every package of trees or shrubs, or portions of trees or shrubs, sent from the prescribed area to any portion of New Zealand, other than that area comprising the Auckland and North Auckland Land Districts, must be accompanied by a certificate, in the form set out in the Schedule hereto, signed by the consignor, that no plant or portion of a plant of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or Crataegus is contained in the package.

(2.) The certificate shall be endorsed on a tag or label securely attached to the package in a prominent position.

4. (1.) No bees shall be sent or brought from the prescribed area to any other portion of New Zealand unless such bees have been effectively quarantined for the six days immediately prior to their despatch from that area so as to prevent their having access to any flowers or other vegetation.

(2.) The Director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture shall appoint such places of quarantine, and shall prescribe such conditions for their use as he deems necessary.

(3.) Before sending or taking any bees out of the prescribed area the owner shall have them quarantined at one of the appointed places of quarantine.

(4.) After completing the prescribed period of six days in quarantine the bees shall be forwarded direct from the quarantine place to their final destination, an official permit signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture being attached by tag or label to each parcel of such bees.

(5.) No bees shall be accepted for posting or for consignment by rail to an address outside the prescribed area without such official permit being attached to the parcel.

(6.) All expenses of sending bees to a place of quarantine and of forwarding them on completion of their period of quarantine to their destination outside the prescribed area shall be borne by the original sender of such bees, and shall be payable on demand.

5. Every person who does or omits any act in contravention of these regulations commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £20.

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SCHEDULE.

CERTIFICATE TO ACCOMPANY PACKAGES OF PLANTS.

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, hereby certify that no plant or portion of plant of any variety of apple, pear, quince, or Crataegus is contained in this package.

Date :

Place :

Signature :

Witness to signature :

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Waitomo Electric-power Board in respect of a Loan of £70,000, authorized to be raised for Electric Works.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of May, 1925.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council :

And whereas the Waitomo Electric-power Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of seventy thousand pounds for electric works :

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven, and it is desired that the rate of interest at which the money may be borrowed be not exceeding six per centum per annum :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Waitomo Electric-power Board in respect of the said loan of seventy thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Waitomo Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of seventy thousand pounds accordingly.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Manurewa Town Board in respect of a Loan of £550, authorized to be raised for the Purchase of Plant.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of May, 1925.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council :

And whereas the Manurewa Town Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of five hundred and fifty pounds for the purchase of plant :

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven, and it is desired that the rate of interest at which the money may be borrowed be not exceeding six per centum per annum :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Manurewa Town Board in respect of the said loan of five hundred and fifty pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Manurewa Town Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five hundred and fifty pounds accordingly.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council,